A hung parliament is when no party wins an overall majority of 326 seats in the 650-seat lower house of parliament.
The last British election in 2010 ended in such a hung parliament and led to the creation of a coalition government between the center-right Conservative Party and centrist Liberal Democrat Party.
The poll, conducted Monday for the Sun newspaper, put the center-left main opposition Labour Party on 33 percent, tied with the Conservatives.
Both parties have been swapping miniscule leads for months, with neither managing to break though the three-point margin of error.
The Liberal Democrats were on 10 percent, the right-wing anti-EU, anti-immigrant UKIP on 12 percent and the left-wing Green Party on 5 percent.
The U.K. general election will take place on May 7, 2015.
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Britain's opposition Labour Party led the ruling Conservatives by 1 percentage point in a Survation opinion poll published on Tuesday, two days before a general election...
ReplyDeleteSurvation showed Labour on 34 percent and the Conservatives on 33 percent. Earlier on Tuesday, a Populus opinion poll put the Conservatives and Labour level on 34 percent each, while an Ashcroft poll had the Conservatives on 32 percent and Labour on 30 percent.
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Britain poised for closest election in decades...
ReplyDeleteBritain heads to the polls on Thursday (May 7) for its most unpredictable general elections in decades. Opinion polls suggest neither Prime Minister David Cameron's Conservative Party nor Ed Miliband's opposition Labour is likely to win a parliamentary majority.
Mr Cameron knows time could be running out on his premiership - and if so, probably his party leadership - and is going on the offensive in the final hours of campaigning.
"You can make all the difference, with our country moving forward, not going backward with Ed Miliband and SNP,” he said to a gathered audience. “That's what it is about!"
The Conservatives claim Ed Miliband will need the Scottish National Party (SNP) to form a workable coalition. Mr Miliband insists he will not go into government with the Sottish nationalists. "Let's elect a Labour government and make this country work for working people,” he said.
But with Nicola Sturgeon's SNP set to take dozens of Scotland's Westminster seats from Labour, Mr Miliband may need the help of her MPs, who, in the long-run, want to break up the UK......channelnewsasia.com
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